Mad Meg Interviewed by Miracle Jones. Dan: You picked me up from the airport. We showed up right at the show. I flew in directly from the airport to the show, no? I gave permission. MJ: I take it weed is probably illegal in Lithuania still—.
Ilya: —Now I feel like everything we do Igor signs some kind of a release without us knowing. Well, yeah, it was a chartered taxi driver and the ride from the airport to the jail was about two hours, you know, just through the countryside, and when we got about halfway there, he pulled over into a rest stop and he had like a sawed-off half of a 20 oz Coke bottle with some like dirty tin foil stuck in there or something. It was all very hugger-mugger and all of us lay down in the car, rolled up the windows, and hot boxed the taxi.
Jason Laney keyboard : I think we have to tell the story of our brother Jay. He just tells everybody that his name is Jay. Igor: We can introduce you if you want. Everyone knows him and he knows everyone. Igor: So a little backstory on Jay, or Zilvinas. He lived in Chicago for like ten years. What was that story he told us about being offered to suck dick or something on the bench or something like that?
And he told this story to us during a commercial break during an interview on the air on the radio. In the summer, she ended up managing…like being the stage manager…of one of the jazz festivals in St. Now we went to Lithuania several times…this was way before that prison show. And this was when me and her were planning this big tour. We did like 27 cities or something.
In Russia. This was in We played a big club in Kaunas and in Vilnius. And there was a billboard of us I think in Kaunas? Ilya: We saw a billboard for a Mongolian throat-singing band. And everybody would come out. I think he sells like season tickets or something. Igor: So fast forwarding to When we ended up planning our tour again for Eastern Europe and Russia for the winter of , we contacted Jay and he booked us a couple of shows.
